City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris (Studies in Sensory History)
By: Aimee Boutin
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Beloved as the city of light, Paris in the nineteenth century sparked the acclaim of poets and the …
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1. Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books)
By: Edwin Hutchins
4.13
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open ocean racing sailor and nav… read more
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2. The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination
By: Harriet Ritvo
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
"Cats is 'dogs,' and rabbits is 'dogs,' and so's parrots; but this `ere 'tortis' is a insect," a po… read more
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3. History and Memory
By: None
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In recent years, "memory" has become a central and controversial concept in historical studies. It … read more
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4. The Poisonwood Bible
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evan… read more
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5. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
By: Eugene D. Genovese
4.25
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
A profound, learned and detailed analysis of Negro slavery. It covers an incredible range of topics… read more
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6. Chain-Gang All-Stars
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more
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"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
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7. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Lisa Brooks
4.14
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America… read more
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8. Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
By: Pascal Boyer
3.92
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psycholo… read more
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"Humans were designed by evolution to live in societies, but they may not understand how societies work."-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
"Information is our environment, our niche, and as we are complex animals we constantly transform that niche, sometimes in ways that make it possible to acquire even more information from our surround…"-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
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"The proper place to start, in order to understand the various things called religion, is in the human capacity to entertain supernatural fantasy. This vast domain of cognition includes daydreaming, f…"-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
9. The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business
By: David T. Courtwright
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From a leading expert on addiction, a provocative, singularly authoritative history of how sophisti… read more
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10. Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination (Volume 42)
By: Susan Ashbrook Harvey
4.13
Format: 442 pages, Hardcover
This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first – seventh ce… read more
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11. The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World
By: Andrew Kettler
4.00
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
In the Atlantic World, different groups were aromatically classified in opposition to other ethnic,… read more
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12. The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War
By: Mark M. Smith
3.63
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnes… read more
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13. The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life
By: Niall Atkinson
3.86
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Fl… read more
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14. City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris (Studies in Sensory History)
By: Aimee Boutin
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Beloved as the city of light, Paris in the nineteenth century sparked the acclaim of poets and the … read more
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15. The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933
By: Emily Thompson
3.90
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
A vibrant history of acoustical technology and aural culture in early-twentieth-century America. … read more
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